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25 unusual facts about Madison County


Asplenium × gravesii

It has been found in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Hocking County, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Madison County, Missouri, Arkansas, Dade County, Georgia, and Alabama.

Condredge Holloway

In 2010, he was selected to the 1970s all-decade team of Madison County, Alabama, high school basketball players by The Huntsville Times.

Cornelison Pottery

Founded in 1809 according to local lore, the pottery's earliest years are undocumented; the earliest clear references to the facility are sales records from 1845, but even this date demonstrates that Cornelison is Madison County's oldest industry.

Edward Swann

Edward Swann (March 10, 1862 Madison, Madison County, Florida – September 19, 1945 Sewall's Point, Martin County, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Ernest O. Holland

Holland began his career in education as an English teacher in high schools at Rensselaer in Jasper County, Indiana and at Anderson in Madison County, Indiana during the period 1895-1900.

Folk Art Center

She founded Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1897 in Madison County, North Carolina.

Fremont County, Idaho

Fremont County borders two such pairs of counties-- Madison County, Idaho and Madison County, Montana and Teton County, Idaho and Teton County, Wyoming.

Isaac H. Ferguson

Isaac H. Ferguson - (About 1776 - January 1, 1848) was the first settler of Marine Township, Illinois, Ferguson moved to Texas in 1846 and at the age of 70 became a company commander of Rusk County, Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War.

John Ratcliffe Chapman

Chapman, a man of considerable wealth for the time, purchased several hundred acres along the south shore of Oneida Lake, in Madison County, New York, where he, his wife and their nine sons established many local farms and businesses, including a cheese factory.

Juliet Stillman Severance

Juliet Hall Worth Stillman Severance (De Ruyter, Madison County, New York, 1 July 1833 - New York, 3 September 1919) was an American physician and feminist of the 19th century.

Madison County, Alabama

They developed, among others, the Redstone rocket, which was modified to launch the first two Americans into space.

Madison County, Arkansas

The Huntsville Municipal Airport is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Huntsville.

Madison County, Georgia

Ralph Hudgens - Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Republican

Madison County, Idaho

The newly established county was named for American president James Madison.

Madison County, Iowa

Madison County is famous for being the county where John Wayne was born, and for a number of covered bridges.

Madison County, Kentucky

Lonnie Napier (1940- ) - one of the current representatives for House District 36 in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Madison County is home to Eastern Kentucky University and Bybee Pottery,(closed February 2011) one of the oldest pottery operations in the United States.

Madison County, Montana

Sam V. Stewart, former Montana Governor and Supreme Court justice, lived here.

Madison County, Ohio

In 2008, Madison County, which spans Interstates 70 and 71 as they converge on Columbus, was cited by the Ohio State Highway Patrol as leading the state for the most number of speeding tickets in excess of 20-mph over the posted limit.

North Zulch, Texas

North Zulch is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Texas, United States at the intersection of U.S. Highway 190 and State Highway 21 and is six miles from the Navasota River and thirteen miles west of Madisonville in west central Madison County.

Sam V. Stewart

Stewart practiced law in Virginia City, Montana, where he served as city attorney and county attorney for Madison County, Montana.

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

The geographic region covered by the museum includes the following six counties: Benton County, Boone County, Carroll County, Madison County, Newton County, and Washington County.

Slackwater darter

For example, the population in the Flint River drainage in Madison County, Alabama, is threatened by changing land use patterns associated with the growth of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

Tam Spiva

Spiva graduated from the defunct Western Military Academy in Alton in Madison County, Illinois, near St. Louis and then Northwestern University in Evanston, near Chicago.

WXXE

WXXE 90.5 FM is licensed to Fenner, New York, which is a rural community in Madison County, in-between the communities of Cazenovia, Chittenango and Canastota, in the Syracuse metropolitan area.


Cedar Cove

Ormonde, designed by architect Frank Furness; Notleymere, designed by architect Robert W. Gibson; Scrooby, designed by architect Robert S. Stephenson; and Shore Acres, designed by architect Stanford White.

DeRuyter, New York

The DeRuyter Central School District is located on the eastern edge of the village on Railroad St. DeRuyter Central School is a public school district located in southwestern Madison County, New York.

Dyer County, Tennessee

He was instrumental in the formation of the counties of Dyer and Madison County, Tennessee.

George E. Nowotny

During his first term, Nowotny's other Republican colleagues were Danny L. Patrick, then a young educator from Madison County, and Jim Sheets, an administrator at John Brown University in Siloam Springs in Benton County.

James W. Nye

He was born in DeRuyter, New York, he attended the common schools and Homer Academy in Homer, New York; he studied law in Troy, New York, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Madison County.

John J. Foote

John Johnson Foote (February 11, 1816 Hamilton, Madison County, New York – April 15, 1905 Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Jonathan Alder High School

The school, as well as the district, are named after Jonathan Alder, the first white settler in Madison County.

Karl Ohs

In 1969, Ohs left his studies in agricultural economics at Montana State University to help the family move to a new ranch in Pony, Montana in a Tobacco Root Mountain valley outside Harrison in Madison County.

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

The food pantry is in LBDNH's four county area and serves residents of St. Clair County, Monroe County, Madison County, and Clinton County.

Petersburg, Madison County, North Carolina

Petersburg is an unincorporated community on North Carolina Highway 213, in south-central Madison County, North Carolina.

Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery

By 1820, the last of the Seventh Day Baptists departed Burlington and migrated to Brookfield, New York in Madison County, never to return.

The Residence

The Residence, also known as Woodberry, is a historic home located on the grounds of Woodberry Forest School at Woodberry Forest, Madison County, Virginia.

Virginia's 5th congressional district

It includes the independent cities of Bedford, Charlottesville (main site of the University of Virginia), Danville, as well as portions of three newly added counties Fauquier, Rappahannock and Madison.

Webster E. Brown

Born near Peterboro, New York, in Madison County, Brown moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857.